Now the messengers of Kriemhild of all, both dame and knight,
Courteous farewell had taken, and with merry hearts and light
On into Suabia rode they, and Gernot sent thus far
A warrior-band to escort them, that none their peace might mar.
When the knights of the Rhine had departed, who thus had warded their way,
By the power of the terror of Etzel were they shielded from that day.
No reiver there was so daring as to touch or vesture or steed.
So back to the land of the Hunfolk they rode with fiery speed.
Wheresoever they found friends dwelling, they told, as they passed, the tale
How the lords of the land Burgundian in few days would not fail